GSE/SGER Women Working: Thinking, Creating, Making Science

纽约城市大学(CUNY)研究生院和女权主义出版社将通过出版和传播一系列面向高中女生的书籍《女性工作：思考、创造、创造科学》来培养年轻女性对科学的兴趣。这12卷将聚焦于在传统领域和非传统领域工作的女科学家的世界。随着美国在全球思想、技术和工业市场的竞争，学校的科学教育鼓励所有学生的才华，无论是男性还是女性，比以往任何时候都更加重要。研究表明，女孩没有平等的机会接受科学教育，部分原因是陈规定型观念继续影响教师和家长，阻碍女学生的学习。科学中的女性形象--无论是在生活中还是在课程材料中--仍然是需要的。智力价值到高中结束时，参加理科课程的女孩数量显著下降，到她们上大学时，许多年轻女性对自己失去信心，特别是对自己的数学和科学能力。2005年2月，美国物理研究所发布了一份关于物理学和天文学领域女性的报告，发现尽管近一半的高中物理学生是女孩，但获得的物理学学士学位只有四分之一授予女性。探索这一系列书籍的出版是一个使用高风险方法的潜在高收益项目。这一小小的探索性努力将把对这些问题的研究与传记融合在一起，将研究成果嵌入针对高中生的流行传记中。该项目希望通过创建可见的榜样和提高对妇女如何使用科学的认识来提高女科学家的知名度。女性工作：思考、创造、创造科学将探索社会期望如何转化为女性在科学领域的存在或缺席。探索性和初步工作将结合来自科学家、科学作家、女性研究专家、女性科学和工程专家(巴尔的摩县大学妇女研究中心)、专业协会(APS、AWM、AAS、WIN)、教育工作者(NSTA)、图书馆员(纽约公共图书馆)、行业(L·奥雷亚)和学生的意见，以便制定一种将研究嵌入传记并使其仍具有吸引力的阅读策略。这种方法既不是研究性研究，也不是课程开发；它是对如何利用流行写作来突出复杂的研究和劳动力问题的创造性探索。更广泛的影响女权主义出版社的书籍通过一个专业机构在全国范围内发行，并利用印刷媒体、电视和广播进行专业的宣传和营销。此外，该项目还将通过与专业科学学会、教师协会和行业合作，以及通过派遣职业生涯早期的女科学家与高中生谈论她们在科学方面的经验，寻求非传统的全国性传播渠道。除了在学校和图书馆分发和使用这些书籍外，还将通过在女权主义出版社网站上张贴帖子以及通过CD、DVD和视频提供材料。关于科学和工程领域多样性的主要全国性研究表明，大众媒体迫切需要重塑科学家和工程师的“面孔”。这一努力在其影响范围内可能具有变革性。它可能会驱散那些继续将科学描绘成男性职业的刻板印象，取而代之的是今天真正的女性科学家的现实。主要目标是在高中女生中激发对科学的热情和兴趣，但它也将影响教育工作者、家长、科学家和工程师。

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) and the Feminist Press will cultivate young women's interest in the sciences through the publishing and dissemination of a series of books for high school girls called Women Working: Thinking, Creating, Making Science. These 12 volumes will focus on the world of working women scientists, both in traditional fields and in nontraditional ones.As the U.S. competes in a global marketplace of ideas, technology, and industry, it is more important than ever that science education in the schools encourage the talents of all students, women as well as men. Studies show that girls do not have equal access to science instruction, in part because stereotypes continue to inform instructors and parents and discourage female students. Images of women in science-both in life and in curricular materials-continue to be needed. Intellectual Merit By the end of high school, the numbers of girls in science courses drop significantly, and by the time they go to college, many young women lose confidence in themselves and especially in their ability to do math and science. In February 2005 the American Institute of Physics issued a report on women in physics and astronomy, finding that while nearly half of high school physics students are girls, only one fourth of bachelor's degrees earned in physics are awarded to women. Exploring the publication of this series of books is a potentially high gain project using a high risk approach. The small exploratory effort will fuse research on the issues with biography, embedding research findings in popular biographies aimed at high school students. The project expects to increase the visibility of women scientists through the creation of visible role models and awareness about how women use science. Women Working: Thinking, Creating, Making Science will explore how social expectations translate to women's presence or absence in the sciences. The exploratory and preliminary work will combine inputs from scientists, science writers, women's studies experts, experts on women in science and engineering (CWIT at UMD Baltimore County), professional associations (APS, AWM, AAS, WIN), educators (NSTA), librarians (New York Public Library), industry (L'Oreal), and students in order to develop a strategy for embedding research in the biographies and still make them appealing reading. The approach is neither a research study nor a curriculum development effort; it is a creative exploration of how to use popular writing to highlight complex research and workforce issues. Broader ImpactFeminist Press books are distributed nationally through a professional agency, and publicized and marketed professionally, using print media, television, and radio. The project will in addition pursue nontraditional channels of national dissemination through partnering with professional science societies, teacher associations, and industry; and through sending women scientists--early in their careers--to speak with high school students about their experience in science. In addition to the distribution and usage of the books in schools and libraries, materials will be delivered through postings on the website of the Feminist Press (www.feministpress.org), and through CDs, DVDs and videos.Major national studies of diversity in science and engineering have affirmed the critical need for popular media to reshape "the face" of scientists and engineers. The effort is potentially transformative in its reach. It could disperse the stereotypes that continue to portray science as a male profession, and replace them with the realities of actual women scientists today. The main goal is to generate enthusiasm and interest for science among high school girls, but it will influence educators, parents, and scientists and engineers too.